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the contrary" provided by: the cornell douglas foundation committed to encouraging stewardship of the environment, land conservation, watershed protection and eliminating harmful chemicals. additional funding provided by: the colcom foundation. the wallace genetic foundation and by the charles a. frueauff foundation. the republicans take their cam with their message as democrats head to charlotte to formally nominate president obama. then, labor secretary hilda solis defends the administration with a labor day interview on women and jobs. hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, battling for the women's vote. president obama and the democrats soon have their week in the spotlight. among other things it's their chance to respond to this week's charges by republican presidential candidate mitt romney and gop convention speakers. one prominent goal at the gop convention was to narrow the looming gender gap. >> when my mom ran for the senate my dad was there for her every step of the way. i can still see her say
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> this week on "inside washington," mitt romney at's august surprise. >> i am delighted to have picked as my running mate paul ryan, a great leader. >> suddenly it is all about paul ryan and medicare. >> governor romney and i will protect and strengthen medicare for seniors. >> they want to turn medicare into a voucher program. >> it is is getting nasty out there. >> unchain wall street. they are going to put y'all back in chains. >> this is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. >> i don't think there's anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it. >> it is and not hope, it is not change. it is partisanship. "tim brant's college football previ captioned by the national captioning institute -- >> washington loves a good fight, at least to those of us here on "inside washington" do, and now we have one tree in one corner, the president of the united states, slim, trim, and ready to rumble. any new challenger
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and that really requires going to a place ten times before she can even feel comfortable there that environment. and this requires patience and vigilance that i think a lot of the families describe. but it's something to aspire to. i think one of the things about families of children with autism is that they never give up hope. they're constantly trying to help their children improve. they're extremely resilient and hopeful. and i think will continue to raise money and raise awareness and support research until we knows what's causing autism and until we have treatments that are effective for all of our children. >> rose: i think we just heard here what makes this whole understanding, this whole quest to understand the brain so exciting for those of us who put together this program. and also for people with just a general curiosity to understand who we are and why we are the way we are. and how central the brain is to that so that's part of what makes this series and the previous series so exciting for us. we've been talking here about the cognitive mind. next time we're going to speak about mo
and that really requires going to a place ten times before she can even feel comfortable there that environment. and this requires patience and vigilance that i think a lot of the families describe. but it's something to aspire to. i think one of the things about families of children with autism is that they never give up hope. they're constantly trying to help their children improve. they're extremely resilient and hopeful. and i think will continue to raise money and raise awareness and...
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you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> what would you say to your supporters, your donors who might be concerned that this could be slipping away? >> i am pleased with the some polls, less so with other polls, but at this stage polls go up, polls go down. >> this week on "inside washington," mitt romney's rough ride. the fight for ohio. >> you may have noticed that there is an election going on. >> we are going to win ohio. >> the foreign policy debate. >> i was certain and continue to be certain that there are going to be bumps in the road. >> "bumps in the road"? we had an ambassador assassinated. >> rare bipartisan agreement. >> did you guys watched the packers game last night? give me a break. it is time to get the real refs. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> it has been a rough couple of weeks for mitt romney. the president has opened up leads in battleground states like ohio, wisconsin, florida, colorado. you would have thought that the assassination
you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> what would you say to your supporters, your donors who might be concerned that this could be slipping away? >> i am pleased with the some polls, less so with other polls, but at this stage polls go up, polls go down. >> this week on "inside washington," mitt romney's rough ride. the fight for ohio. >> you may have noticed that there is an election going on....
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so funding for planned parenthood and title 10, funding for the environment protection agency, funding for president obama's health care plan. so it's both the kinds and the amount of the cuts, and those change. so democrats would like the number to be smaller and they would also like not so many of these riders. republicans would like both to be up. if the riders go down, the numbers come up and vice versa. that's the connection that's being fought over. gwen: here's the part that makes you dizzy. there have been many meetings and press conferences on the hour today. john boehner comes out and says that disagreement is about spending. harry reid comes out and says the disagreement is about women's health care initiatives. what's true? >> they're the same thing. they're both talking about the same thing, they're just talking about it from different perspectives. so when we talk about the cuts to planned parenthood, harry reid frames it as it's a fight over a social issue. to republicans, that's the fight over the $300 million that planned parenthood gets. and so they're talking about t
so funding for planned parenthood and title 10, funding for the environment protection agency, funding for president obama's health care plan. so it's both the kinds and the amount of the cuts, and those change. so democrats would like the number to be smaller and they would also like not so many of these riders. republicans would like both to be up. if the riders go down, the numbers come up and vice versa. that's the connection that's being fought over. gwen: here's the part that makes you...
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not going to be any money left for those other things, for roads, for bridges, for education, for the environment. by fixing the drivers of our debt and get the entitlement programs, saved, sustainable, and secure you free up the money for other priorities in the government. if you don't address the drivers of our debt-- which clearly the president is not. he's not making a proposal to do that-- then you don't have money left for everything else. so i'm amazed that he would use that kind of hyperbolic, hypervendalating rhetoric to describe a plan which we clearly don't do that. we call our plan a path to prosperity because it's welfare reform to get people back to work, economic growth and job creation. it's getting medicare, medicaid, social security saved. we want to save these programs. and by the way, our proposals don't change a single benefit for anybody the age of 55 or above. if you're in retirement or 10 years away from retiring, no change whatsoever and we're change it for the next generation, and by the way, if you're in my generation you don't think you're going to get these benefits
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did you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser. growing ideas. >> mr. president, you are entitled to your own airplane and house, but not to your own facts. >> the first presidential debate, around 12 mitt romney. >> it is arithmetic. >> where was the president's fastball? >> i felt he should of been more aggressive. >> join the president on them stage, the beleaguered middle class. >> the middle class are getting crushed. >> that is what joe biden says. >> how they can justify raising taxes on the middle-class who have been buried the last four years. >> to joe biden. no, don't boo. he is the best thing we have got going, guys. >> it was the biggest brownson's encore. i read that in a column friday morning. on the cover 25th, 1415 on christmas day at parkton corps, king henry led his army to victory. charles the six was mentally incapacitated at the time of battle. that is as far as i want to take that one. agincourt? >> yes, you were there, as i recall. you covered it for the daily frog. it was quite a rout. when i wrote the colu
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extreme environments, brutality, death dirksing. it's uncivilized and women can't do it, nor thank you they even be thought of as doing it. we have come so far and the number one reason is because we have had all of these women in iraq and afghanistan, in these wars, fighting these wars even though not on the official front line and dyeing. 152 women have died in these conflicts, 800 wounded. >> martha, in addition to opening up a lot of jobs, what actually is the practical effect of this? how do they phase it in? are there issues they have to yet resolve once you lift the ban? >> first of all, they're giving this a lot of time. implementation not until the beginning of 2016. you're going to have -- i talked to some young male soldiers who don't like this. it's sort of like this that you heard 20 years ago, we don't want women there. it will ruin the band of brothers. they're going to go slow with this. women will want them to go slow too. they want to do it right. they want the standards to be the same. they want to look at who's q
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he was born poor to a single mother in a segregated environment. mom couldn't take care of him. he was raised by his grandmother for a while and then taken by the community. he once said he worries for this nation that a child born under those circumstances in 1936 could have better life chances than a child born in those same circumstances segregated environment single mother couldn't take care of them and born poor. child born in is the 36 will have a better life outcome possibilities than a child born in 2006. so when you see the great strength of america, my dream for our country is that we focus on our unfinished business. this great experience, this heterogeneous nation, this coming together of such diverse corners of the globe, it was a country, first country really not formed in a monarchy or theocracy but form ideas, a vision that was larger than itself. my mom said we're a nation formed in perfect ideals but imperfect reality that this generation of americans my dream is that we can be a part of that constant march toward true freedom and true liberty which is not evid
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and that in a pretty weak environment. >> susie: but you talk about hope and despair and right now investors are hoping that central bankers in europe and policy makers at the fed will do something to rescue the global economy, take some sort of action. what if they don't. now that's the despair pot of the equation. ipart of the equation. what is that going to mean for the market. >> i suppose if people are expecting it and the central banks don't dlifer then there will be some despair. that's break things apart. in the case of the u.s., this sme is growing. it's not growing gang buttal ter style but it's growing. the housing picture also better as some people pointed out. and some this economy is beginning to spend stand a lite on its own two feet albeit the job picture is still disappointing. if the fed doesn't act the economy's going to keep going. the europe, ecb, definitely in my view needs to provide more stimulus. but they are right to expect that the countries that have been overspending and labor markets are inefficient and really where labor doesn't move around as it needs to, that
and that in a pretty weak environment. >> susie: but you talk about hope and despair and right now investors are hoping that central bankers in europe and policy makers at the fed will do something to rescue the global economy, take some sort of action. what if they don't. now that's the despair pot of the equation. ipart of the equation. what is that going to mean for the market. >> i suppose if people are expecting it and the central banks don't dlifer then there will be some...
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an environment that's safe. if i didn't have mercy, i wouldn't be safe right now. i know a lot of us may say we need help, and we don't. i know that. i know some of us may play the system for our own advantage. i know that too. however, i also know that there's people out there that do need it. and we should stick together to allow them opportunity to live, and know what life is. life is not about struggling day to day. it's about living. help people live. that's what i would tell those people: help people live. yeah. >> the bus rolled on -- from illinois to indiana, then into michigan and ohio. the nuns on the bus were welcomed as messengers of good news, like the evangels of old. everywhere they went, they visited the places where other women of faith are the few among the desperate many. >> we are called to be a bush that allows god to flame up and be a burning bush. >> over and again, sister simone invoked the imagery of the bible - stories of how faith can resurrect withered lives, despairing souls, and broken bodies. >> what it does is it says is that god has
an environment that's safe. if i didn't have mercy, i wouldn't be safe right now. i know a lot of us may say we need help, and we don't. i know that. i know some of us may play the system for our own advantage. i know that too. however, i also know that there's people out there that do need it. and we should stick together to allow them opportunity to live, and know what life is. life is not about struggling day to day. it's about living. help people live. that's what i would tell those people:...
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qc hold for a new environment or food, clothing, shelter? we do. growing ideas. >> the next time you hear them say don't worry about it, we will get a few other people to pay their fair share, watch out, middle-class, the taxpayer is coming to you. >> the vice-presidential debate. >> folks, use your common sense. will you do you trust on this? a man who introduced a bill that will raise 8 $6,400 a year, knowing it and passing it and romney saying he will sign it, or me and the president? >> did joe biden stop the wave?omney >> you are going to win? >> yes fauquier >> also, the ghazi. over ben doe >> and affirmative action returns to the supreme court. >> i hope the court rules that a student's race and ethnicity should not be considered when applying to the university of texas. >> an instant cnn poll gave the vice eventual debate to all rain. and instead cbs poll gave the debate to paujoe biden. >> falling exchange on medicare and social security. >> medicare and social zuccotti did so much for my own family. we will not jeopardize this program, bu
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> health care is a human right. >> freedom is a human right. >> this week on "inside washington," the supreme court wrestles with the health-care law. >> it changes the relationship of the government to the individual. >> marco rubio endorses mitt romney. >> i am not going to be vice president. >> we plan to save this country from the future of debt, doubt, and decline. >> the national conversation over the killing of trayvon martin continues. >> trayvon is our son, but trayvon is also your assigned. -- your son. >> after my election, i have more flexibility. >> an open mic bites the president at the south korean summit. >> this is to russia, without question our number one geopolitical foe. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> the supreme court took up the affordable health care act this week. it was a rare three-day oral argument. outside the court, a full throated display of democracy, with protesters, politicians, and y
do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> health care is a human right. >> freedom is a human right. >> this week on "inside washington," the supreme court wrestles with the health-care law. >> it changes the relationship of the government to the individual. >> marco rubio endorses mitt romney. >> i am not going to be vice president. >> we plan to save this country from the...
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> i am as so looking forward to representing the people of the 26th district and fight for the issues that i know a day care about in washington. >> this week on "inside washington," why all the fuss about one special election? 's medicareryan plan. the israeli prime minister received a rousing reception from congress, and as a message for the american president. >> israel will not return to the indefensible boundaries of 1967. >> the president discovers his inner irishman, and wrestles with heavy shoes at the g8. i am -- heavy issues at the g8. >> i m tim pawlenty and i am running for president. >> pawlenty is in, daniels is out, bachmann and >> i have the fire in my belly. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> we will get back to sarah palin and others in a moment. take a look at "politico's" thursday deadline. does medicare reform mean a political suicide? this week, democrat kathy hochul defeated her opponent, republican
do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> i am as so looking forward to representing the people of the 26th district and fight for the issues that i know a day care about in washington. >> this week on "inside washington," why all the fuss about one special election? 's medicareryan plan. the israeli prime minister received a rousing reception from congress, and as a message for the american president....
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unconscious are like scouts, millions of them, permeating the world, going into other minds, going into an environment and sending back these emotional signals go. no, go. so when you lo at many a menu, you can make a choice of what you want but you do not have a choice of whether you like broccoli. that's happening unconsciously. if you describe to me a story of incest, i have an immediate moral reaction to that. that's all done unconsciously. and, you know, so one of my favote little experiments are people named dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists. people named lawrence are disproportionately likely to become lawyers because unconsciously we have a preference for things that are familiar and we follow those things. and by now there are now 30,000, 40,000 neuroscientists in the world as well as other fields and they're reshaping the way we understand how we navigate in this way, how these scouts send back signals. stinls they send back very brilliant signals, sometimes they send back biased signals. but it doesn't simplify life but it gives you a sense of why we react or don't rea
unconscious are like scouts, millions of them, permeating the world, going into other minds, going into an environment and sending back these emotional signals go. no, go. so when you lo at many a menu, you can make a choice of what you want but you do not have a choice of whether you like broccoli. that's happening unconsciously. if you describe to me a story of incest, i have an immediate moral reaction to that. that's all done unconsciously. and, you know, so one of my favote little...
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an environment that's safe. if i didn't have mercy, i wouldn't be safe right now. i know a lot of us may say we need help, and we don't. i know that. i know some of us may play the system for our own advantage. i know that, too. however, i also know that there's people out there that do need it. and we should stick together to allow them opportunity to live, and know what life is. life is not about struggling day to day. it's about living. help people live. >> the bus rolled on from illinois to indiana, then into michigan and ohio. the nuns on the bus were welcomed as messengers of good news, like the evangels of old. everywhere they went, they visited the places where other women of faith are the few among the desperate many. >> we are 150 years old, and my first reason for coming to st. augustine's was to work with the deaf. >> in cleveland, ohio, sister corita ambro breathes what life she can into the community around st. augustine's parish where she runs the church's hunger center. >> who fixed your hair so pretty? >> these people that come into this hunger cen
an environment that's safe. if i didn't have mercy, i wouldn't be safe right now. i know a lot of us may say we need help, and we don't. i know that. i know some of us may play the system for our own advantage. i know that, too. however, i also know that there's people out there that do need it. and we should stick together to allow them opportunity to live, and know what life is. life is not about struggling day to day. it's about living. help people live. >> the bus rolled on from...
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basically i see as obama's the guy who's interesting in the enabling environment, romney's the guy interested in the business... >> rose: but back to my central point, when you listen to a lot of people like paul ryan they do say that... they sing the song. up leash the unknow separateive power of america. >> and that resonates with me and a lot of americans and it's part of obama's voice that has been missing for me from the very beginning. >> rose: one of the baffling things for me is how he has allowed-- the president-- other people to define him. because the most important thing you need to do is create the narrative that defines who you are rather than allow... >> sure, talk about health care. obama is being called a euro socialist. no, no, no, no. socialism in health care is what we have now. i get sick, i have no health care, i just walk down to that tampa hospital right there... >> rose: to the emergency room. >> they treat me and they basically divide up the cost on everyone who has health insurance. that's called socialism. when what obama is saying is i want everyone to have to buy
basically i see as obama's the guy who's interesting in the enabling environment, romney's the guy interested in the business... >> rose: but back to my central point, when you listen to a lot of people like paul ryan they do say that... they sing the song. up leash the unknow separateive power of america. >> and that resonates with me and a lot of americans and it's part of obama's voice that has been missing for me from the very beginning. >> rose: one of the baffling things...
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the fact we've got about 15 million people whose homes are worth ls than their mortgages. >> in that environment, people are dealing, are walking away andñr that's driving prices dow. so we have to address the problem of under water mortgages and the government can do that with fannie and freddy mortgas directly and it can do it by extending the current programs which deal with just monthly payments to principal adjustments. i think if they don't do that, we're going to continue to see a very poor situation for housing and their for consumerring spendi. >> charlie: and therefore for jobs. >> and therefore for jobs. >> charlie: based on all the people you talked to, is there a consensus it will be very difficult for the president to develop and initiate a policy that will rules the unemployment rate below 8%? >> i think so. in part because of how high unemployment is and in part because of what a long shadow financial crises mass and in part because there isn't a whole lot that the president and leaders in congress agree on. i do think it's important to emphasize though that it's not important t
the fact we've got about 15 million people whose homes are worth ls than their mortgages. >> in that environment, people are dealing, are walking away andñr that's driving prices dow. so we have to address the problem of under water mortgages and the government can do that with fannie and freddy mortgas directly and it can do it by extending the current programs which deal with just monthly payments to principal adjustments. i think if they don't do that, we're going to continue to see a...
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how much did you factor in as you thought about this what's politically feasible in today's political environment with a new republican majority in the house of representatives? >> alan and i didn't come here to get these nice editorials that we've gotten about how serious this proposal is. we came near do something. we spent eight months, the two of us, flying back and forth working with people. you have to take the political reality into account if you really want to get something done. but we tried to do what we would be proud of, what we thought was right. and we'd rather have a real proposal out there, we've got ten votes and some kind of marginal just bunch of ideas out there. >> we really made the pledge to each other so that at this stage of life both of us thinking we've had a fair reputation. i do get my foot in it more than erskine ever did. >> (laughs) i don't know about that. >> rose: i'll grant you that. >> but we would go out with pride. that we did something that no one else has ever done. and they're picking that up. the editorial columns are picking that up. i don't agree... the
how much did you factor in as you thought about this what's politically feasible in today's political environment with a new republican majority in the house of representatives? >> alan and i didn't come here to get these nice editorials that we've gotten about how serious this proposal is. we came near do something. we spent eight months, the two of us, flying back and forth working with people. you have to take the political reality into account if you really want to get something done....
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> the greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. >> this week on "inside washington," the state of the union according to barack obama, and the republican response. >> his solution to every problem we face is for washington to tax more and spend more. >> a call for an increase in the minimum wage. >> why would we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people? >> a plea for tougher gun laws. >> the families of newtown deserve a vote. >> the most aggressive campaign in history to destroy our second amendment rights. >> filibustering chuck hagel. the pope resigns. what lies a check for the catholic church? >> the church is a 200-plus- year-old institution that has not changed very much, and society is leaving the church way behind. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> the president says the economy's improving, but we have to do better. he says
do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> the greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. >> this week on "inside washington," the state of the union according to barack obama, and the republican response. >> his solution to every problem we face is for washington to tax more and spend more. >> a call for an increase in the...
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it has the surrounding environment to push it around, and it has found a weakness in which the atmospheric steering currents are not all that strong. it's moving very slowly. and a slow-moving large storm like isaac is poses serious water-related hazards. a bigger storm much more capable of producing storm surge flooding from the gulf of mexico over land areas and coastal regions and a large slow move ser going to dump a lot of rain and cause inland flooding. >> suarez: people are talking about the comparison to hurricane katrina which had much, much faster top winds, and they're talking about isaac being just as destructive. how is that? >> it depends where you are. in some places you might receive greater impacts from this storm than you did during katrina. in other places, it will not be nearly as bad. and that's because it's very localized. every storm is very different. this is not taking the same exact track that katrina it it it it did. it's going in west of the mouth of the mississippi river. so, for example, down in plaquemine parish, south of new orleans, they've been getting thi
it has the surrounding environment to push it around, and it has found a weakness in which the atmospheric steering currents are not all that strong. it's moving very slowly. and a slow-moving large storm like isaac is poses serious water-related hazards. a bigger storm much more capable of producing storm surge flooding from the gulf of mexico over land areas and coastal regions and a large slow move ser going to dump a lot of rain and cause inland flooding. >> suarez: people are talking...
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the demand addressed to greece is very low because the environment is not particularly supportive and as you know growth in europe is rather anemic and if you put it together and a total lack of trust on the parts of the market and you have an extremely costly exercise with the service of debt itself is a constant burden on the country. >> rose: do you believe everybody will muddle through? >> i believe there's a way out if everybody does what everybody has to do and we see the beginning of it. it's a combination of the european partners reducing the interest they charge greece for lending to greece. it's the private sector, that is the banks and pension funds and insurance companies that have bought greek debt accepting a haircut on the debt and the greek authorities making sure the expenses are kept under control. some of them are reduced, no doubt about it and the are revenues have collected. >> rose: you have forged a relationship that's a kind of communication not based on gen gender but talking but it is said that she lobbied with the president of fans that didn't like you to se
the demand addressed to greece is very low because the environment is not particularly supportive and as you know growth in europe is rather anemic and if you put it together and a total lack of trust on the parts of the market and you have an extremely costly exercise with the service of debt itself is a constant burden on the country. >> rose: do you believe everybody will muddle through? >> i believe there's a way out if everybody does what everybody has to do and we see the...
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>> i did, i like being in an environment that's challenging, requirers you to think on your feet. >> ryan: i don't know if being on national television is the best way to stay under the radar, though. >> maybe it is the best way, i'm fooling everybody. >> ryan: double cover, okay. >> right. >> ryan: welcome, good luck, congratulations on what you've done so far. each night there are three important bouts. first against another challenger, one of the people who come down to the hourglass to take the chair from you. the second bout, against some one who's playing at home, line jumper, wants to take the chair from you. the final bout is winner take all against one of our top four players. you ready for your next challenger? >> i'm very ready, bring him on. >> ryan: perfect sats scores, assistant professor from brooklyn, nathan, step into the hourglass. how you doing, buddy? welcome. nathan, laura. laura, nathan. perfect on the s.a.t. >> yes, i got a 1600. >> ryan: that's a perfect score? >> that's what it was when i took it. >> giving away our ages. >> ryan: and a math professor. >> yea
>> i did, i like being in an environment that's challenging, requirers you to think on your feet. >> ryan: i don't know if being on national television is the best way to stay under the radar, though. >> maybe it is the best way, i'm fooling everybody. >> ryan: double cover, okay. >> right. >> ryan: welcome, good luck, congratulations on what you've done so far. each night there are three important bouts. first against another challenger, one of the people...
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and we didn't talk about the effects of the ways we would get it on either the environment or, more broadly, on the globe. >> nonetheless, did the debates matter? do you think they've had an impact on the campaign? >> yes, and what we, what we saw across the debates is what we expected to see. we saw learning about those issues that were addressed. more accurate placement of candidates on the areas in which they differ. what we didn't see is more accurate placement on areas that they're similar because the news never stresses areas in which they're similar. but nonetheless, we've seen learning across the debates in our annenberg survey. >> but my sense is that when there is no penalty for lying or as jonathan swift says in the last part of "gulliver's", for saying the thing that is not so, that the things one learns about what people say are completely irrelevant. governor romney has changed his position on just about everything throughout his entire career. and that, i believe, bedevils the fact checkers who will say, "well, his official position is this, but then he did that. so it's hard
and we didn't talk about the effects of the ways we would get it on either the environment or, more broadly, on the globe. >> nonetheless, did the debates matter? do you think they've had an impact on the campaign? >> yes, and what we, what we saw across the debates is what we expected to see. we saw learning about those issues that were addressed. more accurate placement of candidates on the areas in which they differ. what we didn't see is more accurate placement on areas that...
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things like making the regulatory environment simple so people can invest. chasing the medical twice overseas. our regulation tion are stringent an so complicated you want to get away from them. he had a bunch of 8 ditch policies infrastructure spending. 80% of the country behind them. put them in one big package combine with fiscal discipline, lay it out there, see what happens. but that's the kind of risk. >> charlie:but he doesn't do that because he think's it's too risky. >> he has become defined over the last two years without the sense of mission in the first 2 years defined by the negotiates progress excess he's in. whatever position he's taking within that negotiating process. second i would say this about the white house itself, the original principles have left and they have been followed in almost every case by somebody with a staffer mentality, rahm emmanuel big figures replaced by servants of the president but not independent big figures and i think some of the confrontation has gone down in the white house. it's more smoothly running opt domest
things like making the regulatory environment simple so people can invest. chasing the medical twice overseas. our regulation tion are stringent an so complicated you want to get away from them. he had a bunch of 8 ditch policies infrastructure spending. 80% of the country behind them. put them in one big package combine with fiscal discipline, lay it out there, see what happens. but that's the kind of risk. >> charlie:but he doesn't do that because he think's it's too risky. >> he...
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yourself, whereas though you don't have to feed and react off of the things that's going around in the environment around you. >> darrius learned how to meditate in a program started in some public schools in baltimore by the holistic life foundation ten years ago. the program was created by brothers atman and ali smith and andy gonzalez. >> darrius in the fifth grade, he's probably one of the toughest kids i ever met in my life. he settled everything with his fists and then at some point, it just clicked with him where he just decided that he was going to try something else. >> ali and his brother atman learned meditation from their parents. they thought it, along with yoga, might do some good in some of west baltimore's toughest neighborhoods. >> we were kind of skeptical ourselves when we first started. i mean, because we know how the yoga and the meditation and stuff were affecting us and we thought it might work with kids. >> the levels of stress down in the, you know, elementary school are colossal. the fact that the digital age is upon us and the children that are being born now have never
yourself, whereas though you don't have to feed and react off of the things that's going around in the environment around you. >> darrius learned how to meditate in a program started in some public schools in baltimore by the holistic life foundation ten years ago. the program was created by brothers atman and ali smith and andy gonzalez. >> darrius in the fifth grade, he's probably one of the toughest kids i ever met in my life. he settled everything with his fists and then at some...
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hopes for the environment or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhauser, growing ideas. >> mr. chairman and delegates, i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> this week on "inside washington," the grand old party makes it official. >> join mitt romney and me. let's give this effort everything we have. >> a look at the supporting cast. >> this man will not let us down. >> tonight, i say enough. hope and change has become divide and conquer. >> when somebody does not do their job, you have got to let them go. >> where does this party go from here? over the long haul, republicans need to be more respectful of voters they are trying to attract. the 2012 republican national convention served up no surprises except perhaps for clint eastwood's rambling performance in the key 10:00 hour thursday night, but conventions rarely do surprises anymore. this one was mitt romney's major opportunity to sell himself to the american people. >> in america, we celebrate success. we do not apologize for success. >> what america needs is jobs -- lots of jobs. >> you know ther
hopes for the environment or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhauser, growing ideas. >> mr. chairman and delegates, i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> this week on "inside washington," the grand old party makes it official. >> join mitt romney and me. let's give this effort everything we have. >> a look at the supporting cast. >> this man will not let us down. >> tonight, i say enough. hope and change has become...
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and this was a made-for-television event and made-for-television disaster and it operated in the same environment as the whole next week is supposed to be about. >> it is remarkable that two weeks have gone by since paul ryan was picked as the nominee and republicans have talked about anything but the economy and barack obama. gwen: and speaking of distractions and taking the topic off point again, today, the nominee, mitt romney, was campaigning in his home state of michigan and had this to say in a little joke before a home-town crowd. >> i love being home in this place where ann and i were raised, where both of us were born. ann was born at henry ford hospital. i was born at harper hospital. no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know this was the place we were born and raised. [laughter] gwen: dan, what could he have been talking about? >> i have no idea. it's baffling, the birther issue, of course, has been out there among a number of republicans and for mitt romney on the friday before his convention is open to make any kind of reference to it is shocking, frankly. i don't kn
and this was a made-for-television event and made-for-television disaster and it operated in the same environment as the whole next week is supposed to be about. >> it is remarkable that two weeks have gone by since paul ryan was picked as the nominee and republicans have talked about anything but the economy and barack obama. gwen: and speaking of distractions and taking the topic off point again, today, the nominee, mitt romney, was campaigning in his home state of michigan and had this...
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. >> well the difference is the role of government in our lives and in creating an environment where we can get back on track economically. that's the driving issues, those two issues of size and scope of government, and then how, the role government plays in creating sustained economic growth. it's huge differences of opinion on that, and i think that's where the campaign plays out. president obama is making a case that economic security trumps everything else and is saying i think it's a false choice but he's saying if we redistribute wealth more people will benefit through government receiving the chance to be secure in their economic livelihood. governor romney's approach is the one that's more traditional in our country which is to say we need to create a climate of opportunity where people succeed and fail with government playing a role in building capacity, playing a role in providing security from a national level, creating a role for infrastructure but not trying to pick winners and losers all the time. that's a big difference. and i hope the campaign is about that and not a
. >> well the difference is the role of government in our lives and in creating an environment where we can get back on track economically. that's the driving issues, those two issues of size and scope of government, and then how, the role government plays in creating sustained economic growth. it's huge differences of opinion on that, and i think that's where the campaign plays out. president obama is making a case that economic security trumps everything else and is saying i think it's...
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> when our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. >> this week on "inside washington," president obama makes his case for military intervention in libya, but who are the good guys in this fight? >> we don't know as much as we would like to add as much as we expect we will. >> everyone is upset. >> the tea party puts the heat on the speaker of the house. >> now, the senate says we have a plan. well, great. pass the damn thing. >> wall more women go to the supreme court to deny equal pay for equal work. >> the fight has just begun. >> and no word on the passing of political trail blazer geraldine ferraro -- a word on the passing of political trouble is our geraldine ferraro. >> this campaign is not just a statement, it is a bond between women all over america. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> in a nationally televised speech this week, president obama explained his reasons for launching air at
do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> when our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. >> this week on "inside washington," president obama makes his case for military intervention in libya, but who are the good guys in this fight? >> we don't know as much as we would like to add as much as we expect we will. >> everyone is upset. >> the tea party puts the...
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during which he was pro-choice on abortion, he was pro gun control, he was pro environment, a greenie, and in addition he offered the mandatory health insurance that everybody had to buy with a public subsidy. but that is the only public record and he's totally moved away from that. people don't know who he is. and they don't have, they want to have a sense of what kind of a guy he is. what kind of a person he is. and what he's going to do. he hasn't filled that in at all and let the obama campaign fill in a lot of it. >> i was doing a google search looking for information and came across a column i wrote in 2007. of course i reread what i wrote. and it was this. it was like how come he doesn't tell us who he is. so that was 2007. it's been five years since then. >> woodruff: about romney. >> and he still hasn't done that. so maybe there is nobody in the house. but i don't know, we'll see. >> woodruff: why is he doing so well then if he hasn't told us who he is? >> i think it's quite honestly because the president is in a tough situation. the president has a ceiling, you have to belie
during which he was pro-choice on abortion, he was pro gun control, he was pro environment, a greenie, and in addition he offered the mandatory health insurance that everybody had to buy with a public subsidy. but that is the only public record and he's totally moved away from that. people don't know who he is. and they don't have, they want to have a sense of what kind of a guy he is. what kind of a person he is. and what he's going to do. he hasn't filled that in at all and let the obama...
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one effort to promote environmental stewardship is the environment health and safety academy. at the university in the provincial capital of. the two-and-a-half-year-old academy trains managers in manufacturing companies. it provides courses on environmental regulation, health hazards and risk assessment. it has support from the u.s. government, major transnational corporations, and a vermont-based foundation, the institute for sustainable communities, represented in guangdong province by this manjoo we are delivering some courses, some training to, you know, change the behavior of the workers, change the awareness and mint set of their managers, their ceos. and finally helping to, you know, to protect the environment, help to address the global climate change issues. >> reporter: one company he has worked with makes a product that is exported around the world and power electric devices such as elevator doors, washing machines and air conditioners. . it employs,000 workers at its plant on the southern coast. general manager says his company's output grows by 40% each year. ene
one effort to promote environmental stewardship is the environment health and safety academy. at the university in the provincial capital of. the two-and-a-half-year-old academy trains managers in manufacturing companies. it provides courses on environmental regulation, health hazards and risk assessment. it has support from the u.s. government, major transnational corporations, and a vermont-based foundation, the institute for sustainable communities, represented in guangdong province by this...
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dealing withl conflict situations and something incredibly valuable when you have high-risk security environments where it's difficult to get researchers on the ground to corroborate reports of human rights violations is to rely on essentially ways to circumvent those information blackouts, such as satellite imagery. so in the case of aleppo, we were very curious exactly what the state of play was with regard to military hardware, positions of particular units, pro-assad units and other units, both sides and to take a baseline of what the city looked like in order to assess risk. >> warner: both sides have been accused of human rights violations in this conflict. the syrian military much more than the rebels what are you looking for in that regard? >> we're looking to make sure all actors protect civilians, to minimize civilian casualties and non-"commitment 2012" bat tonights and that includes those who have been captured on either side who are no longer taking part in hostilities. >> warner: let's take a look at the satellite images you released and susan i would like you to tell us what we're
dealing withl conflict situations and something incredibly valuable when you have high-risk security environments where it's difficult to get researchers on the ground to corroborate reports of human rights violations is to rely on essentially ways to circumvent those information blackouts, such as satellite imagery. so in the case of aleppo, we were very curious exactly what the state of play was with regard to military hardware, positions of particular units, pro-assad units and other units,...
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issues like women's rights, religious liberty, the environment, foreign policy. because if voters are evenly divided on their most salient issue, the economy, they're going to make their decision perhaps on some of these secondary issues. issues that they don't regard as the most important, but they might not be able to choose between governor romney and president obama on something like unemployment, so some of these other issues may matter. >> both candidates have attempted to apply moral and religious language to their economic policies. >> i think it's, frankly, not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in, knowing those burdens are going to be passed on to the next generation and they're going to be paying the interest and the principal all their lives. >> if i'm willing to give something up as somebody who's been extraordinarily blessed, and give up some of the tax breaks that i enjoy, i actually think that's going to make economic sense. but for me as a christian, it also coincides with jesus' teaching that "for unto whom muc
issues like women's rights, religious liberty, the environment, foreign policy. because if voters are evenly divided on their most salient issue, the economy, they're going to make their decision perhaps on some of these secondary issues. issues that they don't regard as the most important, but they might not be able to choose between governor romney and president obama on something like unemployment, so some of these other issues may matter. >> both candidates have attempted to apply...